3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it – what a huge problem it was and how it wasn’t a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it’s funny what comes down the pike.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I just hope that theaters remain. I think there’s something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There’s something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it’s a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Yeah, I’ve been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Whenever you’re the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I don’t know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don’t think you get the richness that’s available in a long-term relationship.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I don’t really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it’s going to be even tougher.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges In life and in movies, it’s a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bridges Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn’t so good.